Sparisoma chrysopterum Redtail parrotfish

Sparisoma chrysopterumis commonly referred to as Redtail parrotfish. Difficulty in the aquarium: Only for advanced aquarists. A aquarium size of at least 3500 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:

4331 

AphiaID:

273774 

Scientific:

Sparisoma chrysopterum 

German:

Rotschwanz-Papageifisch 

English:

Redtail Parrotfish 

Category:

Parrotfishes 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Scaridae (Family) > Sparisoma (Genus) > chrysopterum (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Bloch & Schneider, ), 1801 

Occurrence:

Suriname, Barbados, Guadeloupe, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Equatorial Guinea, French Guiana, Grenada, Guatemala, Gulf of Mexico, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, The Bahamas, the Caribbean, the Cayman Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, U.S., West-Atlantic Ocean 

Sea depth:

1 - 15 Meter 

Size:

up to 11.81" (30 cm) 

Temperature:

73.4 °F - 80.6 °F (23°C - 27°C) 

Food:

Algae, Frozen Food (large sort) 

Tank:

769.92 gal (~ 3500L)  

Difficulty:

Only for advanced aquarists 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Least concern (LC)  

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Sparisoma amplum
  Papageifisch
• 
  Sparisoma atomarium
  Papageifisch
• 
  Sparisoma aurofrenatum
  Rotband-Papageienfisch
• 
  Sparisoma axillare
  Papageifisch
• 
  Sparisoma choati
  "Westafrikanischer" Papageifisch
• 
  Sparisoma chrysopterum
  Rotschwanz-Papageifisch
• 
  Sparisoma cretense
  Europäischer Papageienfisch
• 
  Sparisoma frondosum
  Agassiz-Papageifisch
• 
  Sparisoma griseorubrum
  Papageifisch
• 
  Sparisoma radians
  Papageifisch
• 
  Sparisoma rocha
  Papageifisch
• 
  Sparisoma rubripinne
  Gelbschwanz-Papageifisch
• 
  Sparisoma strigatum
  Papageifisch
• 
  Sparisoma tuiupiranga
  Papageifisch
• 
  Sparisoma viride
  Stoplicht-Pagageienfisch, Grüner Papageifisch, Ampel-Papageifisch
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Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2012-04-21 09:46:41 

Last edit:

2019-11-17 21:14:05 

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